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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 9:04 PM CDT for Boone County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2000, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Boone County, NE
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
883 WFUS53 KOAX 200204 TOROMA NEC011-200230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 904 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 902 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER 6 MILES SOUTH OF SPALDING...OR ABOUT 43 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO THROUGH 930 PM CDT INCLUDE...ALBION...ST. EDWARD... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4157 9835 4145 9818 4154 9786 4183 9786 BYRD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte | 26 min |
| Jun 19, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Wayne | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Platte | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte, Stanton | 43 min |
| Jun 19, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 46 min |
| Jun 20, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 34 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.